Earth Poster Update

I finally got some real inspiration for my Earth Day poster.

I was at the movies and the trailer for African Cats came on stating that if you go see the movie on Earth Day that the proceeds would benefit the Save the Savannah initiative as part of AWF: African Wildlife Foundation. It's basically a foundation that dedicates its time and efforts into preserving and expanding the dwindling areas of the African Savannah that are home to thousands of animals and plantlife.

 I love watching Animal planet and when the Earth documentaries came out about a year ago I was totally engrossed so why not tie it into Smooches as a fundraiser of some sort.  I thought of the headline: "Who knew saving the Earth could be so Sweet?" or "Who knew saving the Savannah could be so Sweet?" Probably the latter. I've decided to incorporate a part of my logo by making african animal themed cupcake hats.  They'll look something like this:

For every dozen African themed cupcakes you buy in support of Earth Day Smooches will donate a portion of the proceeds to the African Wildlife Foundation in an effort to help expand and restore Africa's natural habitats. I'm getting excited about it now. Final product coming soon. 

New Forever 21 Ads (What do you think?)

After a day of slaving away at my computer, I managed to churn out new collage ads for my Forever 21 campaign.  What do you think?

I'm trying to think, if possible, what other materials I could collage in there.  Right now, it's just the pictures and the textured background that I used from paper in my house. Just need to know if it's okay design wise....etc.

Portfolio Preparation

So in order to get the ball rolling on my portfolio I'm re-doing my ads from my 3000 class. They were supposed to be collage ads so whatever found imagery from newspapers, magazines, photos and the web.  The client I chose was forever 21 since I LOVE their clothes and am a frequent shopper.   My frist ads weren't so successful but now that I've gotten the hang of the whole cohesive unified ad thing i'm gonna give it another whirl. I've chosen the tagline Fun, Fierce, Flirty and then I'm gonna throw the logo on there which looks like this [ XXI Forever ].

Here are my old ads. They're horrible. Don't judge me.

Yeah definitely due for an upgrade

Earth Day

Now that the Earth Day Poster has been added to our to-do list I went to the internet in search of adds that inspired me.  Here is one I found.  It involves photography and right now that's the medium I'm leaning towards.  However, none of my portfolio really illustrates a lot of my illustration skills so I might utilize that in this project. Not so sure yet. Hmmmm....

Updates

I'm almost done with my ads. Right now it's a battle between Spiderman and the disney princesses but I think Spiderman is going to win simply because I like the contrast in color and because he'll as a bit mor masculinity to my ads. Also, the pie ad is proving to be a little difficult as I can't quite find a suitable pie to photograph.  My mom made one this past weekend and it's delicious but it was was photogenic as I needed it to be *womp womp*

It's a Photo Shoot! (*Aye*)

I went to Publix yesterday and had a full on photo shoot in their bakery. I wish I could have abducted their dummy cakes and gone to a real studio but I'm sure I would have gotten arrested or something.  I took most of these photos on *womp womp* my iphone which surprisingly took much better pics than my digital camera.   Photoshop will have to work wonders.

Luckily I contacted Elece (Smooches owner) and she's making two cakes this weekend --one for a birthday and one for a baby shower-- so I'll be able to take some photos of actual work and thus the ads will be a bit more authentic.  She is actually capable of the caliber of work shown in the photos but having her own stuff featured would be super.  

Happy Birthday Stephanie, whoever you are.

Bakery Ads

Here are a cool series of Ads I found from Delicato Bakery.

And another less girly one I found from Butch Bakery